Bug 446327

Summary:	telinit: Unable to send message: Connection refused
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ralf Corsepius <rc040203>
Component:	libselinux	Assignee:	Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ralf Corsepius 2008-05-14 04:15:09 UTC

Description of problem:
During a yum upgrade from FC8->FC9, I received the following error message

...
 Updating  : libselinux                   ################### [ 224/1499] 
telinit: Unable to send message: Connection refused
...

which seems to originate from this scriptlet of libselinux's rpm:
# rpm -q --scripts -p libselinux-2.0.61-1.fc9.i386.rpm
postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
/sbin/ldconfig
[ -x /sbin/telinit -a -p /dev/initctl -a -f /proc/1/exe -a -d /proc/1/root ] &&
/sbin/telinit u
exit 0

Apparently, this scriptlet is non-functional.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libselinux-2.0.61-1.fc9.i386
rsp.
libselinux-2.0.43-1.fc8.i386

Additional info:
This happened on an FC8-i686-system with all FC8-updates installed, while 
"yum updating" to FC9, running while still running kernel-2.6.24.5-85.fc8 with
selinux enabled (permissive/targeted)

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2008-05-14 12:35:32 UTC

Bill any ideas?

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2008-05-14 12:36:24 UTC

BTW, You can safely ignore this message for now.

Comment 3 Ralf Corsepius 2008-05-14 13:53:26 UTC

Wild guess: "sysvinit" vs. "startup" package installation ordering issues
combined with SELinux issues 
(This is the same machine as in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446332)

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2008-05-14 17:34:24 UTC

upstart was installed first. It handles telinit u, which *first* tries to talk
to upstart, gets ECONNREFUSED, and then talks to old sysv init. So the message
is harmless.

That being said, it won't work once you're fully in native upstart, as
/dev/initctl won't be there.

Comment 5 Daniel Walsh 2008-05-15 16:08:00 UTC

So I don't really need it any more with Fedora 9 and beyond.

I don't think upstart links with libselinux so I can just remove this from
postinstall for f9 and beyond correct?

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2008-05-15 16:22:24 UTC

Correct. At least, until upstart grows a dep on it.

Comment 7 Daniel Walsh 2008-05-16 18:57:18 UTC

Fixed in libselinux-2.0.64-3